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Financial Management Programs
Adult Programs •
Youth
Programs • Workforce Preparation
Programs
The Cooperative Extension Service wants to increase the financial literacy of
all Arkansans. Contact your county Extension office for more information about
adult and youth financial management programs and to learn when the next program
will be held.
Adult Programs
Here are descriptions of some of our newer adult financial management programs.
Description of most programs are on the web. For more information, contact your
County Extension Office.
- America Saves, a program to encourage savings. Persons choose a
savings goals. A quarterly newsletter is mailed at no charge. This program is found on the web.
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Critical Conversations About Financing Long-Term Care is an award-winning
program to help families determine how to manage long-term care expenses.
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Investing for Your Future, a self-study program teaches investing
principles. This award-winning program is also found on the web.
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Legal Check-Up is a program co-sponsored with AARP to help you assess
your financial and legal situation. Participants complete a self-help packet
before the program. During the program, an attorney discusses the contents of
the self-help packet and entertains questions.
- Money & You is an award-winning eight-unit curriculum for limited
resource audiences. The program will help parents learn how to get the most
benefit from limited dollars. The goal is to assist parents to become
economically self-sufficient. Topics include financial decision-making and
communication, setting financial goals, developing a spending plan, savings for
emergencies, debt reduction, avoiding money traps, earned income tax credit, and
making the transition to the workforce. For more information, contact your
County Extension Office.
Youth Programs
Here are descriptions of some of our youth financial management programs.
For more information, contact your
County Extension Office.
- Calculating Consumer
- Financial Champions
- Kid$ & Ca$h
- Super Shopper Connection
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High School Financial Planning Programs, a program to encourage savings. Persons choose a is a six-unit program for high
school youth is designed to teach high school students basic financial
management concepts.
- Money $ense for Kids is a 5-day day camp for children ages 9 through 12.
Workforce Preparation Programs
for Adults and Youth
Here are descriptions of some of our workforce preparation programs for
adults and youth.
- Career Smarts is a set of 10 pre-employment discussion and activity
booklets plus leader's guide to help middle school youth prepare to enter and
maintain stable employment.
- The Character at Work curriculum teaches ethics, thinking and
reasoning in the context of the work place.
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Employment Skills: Experience Resumes and Targeted Cover Letters. Whether you are looking for your first job, intent on keeping your current job,
changing jobs, or seeking to make a career change, an experience resume will
help you market your accomplishments to secure employment. Sample resumes and
cover letters are given for adults and youth.
- Mini-Society is a 20-hour, experience‑based program enables youth, ages 8 - 12 years, to experience entrepreneurship; learn entrepreneurship, citizenship,
and economics concepts; and relate these concepts with subjects, such as
language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
- Wild Over Work is a 4-H program for middle school youth that teaches
skills related to the workforce.
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